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...Babe's heroine Pepper derives from Pippi Longstocking, the children's book tomboy who played hooky and didn't wash behind his ears. Neither Pepper nor her big brother Markie can find someone to love them, to make them believe it's worth growing up. Pepper faces down a grey-flannel husband and petty-bourgeois mother-in-law, befriends a looney, and runs off to Europe to find her brother, who carries the world's angst on his shoulders...
...recovery task force under "Wild Bill" Guest, 52. Among the most sophisticated hardware in his far-out fleet were the civilian-manned, deep-diving research subs Aluminaut and Alvin. It was Alvin's two crewmen who first found the wayward nuke last month, wrapped in its grey parachute 2,500 ft. down on a 70° slope. But Alvin proved a ham-handed retriever. On its first try at getting a line around the bomb, the sub booted the bomb 20 ft. down the slope toward a 3,000-ft. chasm from which it might never have been extracted...
Room for Initiative. Gronouski, the grandson of a Polish immigrant and a former university economics professor, has turned into an effective, if somewhat unconventional, diplomat. He pumps Polish hands, kisses Polish babies, stalks the streets of Warsaw in his cocked grey astrakhan, gabs with Polish waiters at embassy cocktail parties. That casual curiosity stood Gronouski in good stead during his Eastern European swing. The first stop was Rumania, the most independent of the former Soviet satellites and the most eager for U.S. trade (TIME cover, March...
...vivid hues of Braniff. Since last fall, in a major departure from the traditional white or silver commercial airlines, Braniff has been painting its jets any of seven assorted colors: lemon, beige, ocher, turquoise, orange, light and dark blue. Aircraft interiors are a kaleidoscope of orange, yellow, blue, brown, grey, red and green. Braniff hostesses wear uniforms that include lime topcoats, pink and yellow or pink and blue shift dresses and hyacinth culottes, all styled by Italian Couturier Emilio Pucci...
parching, back, brain burning, the grey pocks...